In 2015, the book and multimedia project Tap, Click, Read: Growing Readers in a World of Screens offered an optimistic vision for a symbiosis of media, technology, and literacy. Authored by
On a recent October afternoon, an eight-year-old girl in a pink sweatsuit with matching bows in her hair made her way to the stage—a poster-sized paper taped to the floor
One morning last August, about half a dozen 10-year-olds gathered in a New York City studio with the product team from Lirvana Labs, a partner in the Cooney Center Sandbox
For nearly two decades, edtech entrepreneur Carly Shuler has focused on how technology can best support and amplify the human connections at the heart of teaching and learning.This mission drove
Each March, the brightest minds in education, technology, and media gather in Austin, TX for SXSW EDU to explore what’s next in learning. Here at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center,
In the Cooney Center’s Sandbox for Literacy Innovations, E-Line Media is creating a reading app that aims to helps kids discover the joy of reading. RiSi (Read It, See It)
Earlier this year, the edtech startup LitLab began testing a new feature in their classroom product that creates AI-generated storybooks for early readers. The feature is a “record me” option
The Cooney Center’s new initiative matters for kids and teachersEarly in my education career, I taught ninth-grade English in a small public high school. My vivacious, curious students came from
Generative AI is here to stay—so how can we help children understand what it is and how to use it responsibly? On March 3, 2025, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
Although we are still in the midst of discovering the implications and opportunities that various technologies bring to our children’s (and our own) lives, we’re seeing a new technological innovation